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(Irish Examiner) – Just because you’re one of the biggest technology companies in the world doesn’t mean you don’t get annoyed by the blinking lights, tangled wires and changeable connection speeds of modern-day WiFi. This is exactly the mindset Google has taken on, with the Read More

Farhad Manjoo, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times) — More than a year ago, in a decision that stunned many American Internet companies, Europe’s highest court ruled that search engines were required to grant an unusual right — the “right to be Read More

MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Like a lot of teenagers, Aanya Nigam reflexively shares her whereabouts, activities and thoughts on Twitter, Instagram and other social networks without a qualm. But Aanya’s care-free attitude dissolved into paranoia a few months ago shortly Read More

(TechCrunch) – WiFi is getting a big upgrade today, thanks to three years of joint research and development by the world’s largest tech companies. The new technology, called Wi-Fi Aware, is being released by the Wi-Fi Alliance, the non-profit trade organization that includes Apple, Microsoft, Intel and Read More

MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuba says it’s expanding Internet access by adding Wi-Fi capacity to dozens of state-run Internet centers and more than halving the cost that users pay for an hour online. The announcement published in Thursday’s edition of the newspaper Read More

(CNN Money) – The Internet is continuing to grow, mostly through the use mobile devices. New data released gives a glimmer of how this growth will change the global economy and workforce. On Wednesday, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers released its annual Read More

Nicole Arce, TECH TIMES (Tech Times) — The U.S. is about to run out of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses this summer. And while we’re not exactly going to see a meltdown of the Internet, businesses will definitely feel the crunch when they discover prices Read More

Felicia Fonseca and David A. Lieb, ASSOCIATED PRESS FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — When vandals sliced a fiber-optic cable in the Arizona desert last month, they did more than time-warp thousands of people back to an era before computers, credit cards or even phones. Read More

MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Would you pay to see some of the Internet’s best video clips first? Vessel, a new service trying to change the way that short video pieces make money on the Internet and mobile devices, is betting Read More

By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The communications network of the National Black Chamber of Commerce has evolved along with the Internet. When we first started back in the late 1980s, we would write and print out letters through a pinwheel printer. To print Read More

EMERY P. DALESIO, AP Business Writer RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — People in small communities may get better, cheaper access to the Internet after the Federal Communications Commission ruled Thursday that city-owned broadband services can expand into areas overlooked by commercial providers. The decision quietly played Read More

By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief NASSAU, Bahamas (NNPA) – Blacks need to become more involved in what might appear to be arcane debates over “net neutrality – having an open Internet – because the fast-evolving Internet will have a major impact on their Read More

Roger Yu and Mike Snider, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today)—The fight over net neutrality played out in a doubleheader of Congressional hearings on Wednesday, with tech industry executives both supporting and jabbing at Republicans’ newfound love of open Internet policies. In a House hearing Read More

JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The days of the census taker with clipboard in hand may be numbered. The Census Bureau plans to test digital tools in preparation for the 2020 census, a change that could save millions of dollars. People may Read More

Q. I purchased a game console for the TV in my bedroom, but it turns out my Wi-Fi signal isn’t great there. What can I do to get a stronger signal? A. Your Wi-Fi router antenna is likely omni-directional. Put the router as high Read More

(Business Day) – There is no shortage of tech companies trying to replace e-mail in the workplace by offering new collaboration tools. Workers, though, just want their e-mail. In a new survey, 61% of US adult workers who use the Internet ranked e-mail as Read More

John Curran, FORBES (Forbes.com)—You have probably been hearing quite a bit in recent months about the Internet of Things coalescing into a major high tech business opportunity. You are likely to hear a lot more about this during the upcoming 2015 Consumer Electronics Show in Read More

(Ars Technica) – Though some pockets of the US have a competitive market for ultra-fast broadband, a new government report shows that Internet service of at least 100Mbps is limited, and where it exists there is usually just one provider that offers it. Fifty-nine percent of the US population can Read More

Bijan Sabet, TECH CRUNCH (TechCrunch.com)—It’s Computer Science Education Week and for thousands of students around the country, that means nothing. Nothing despite that, according to Code.org, computer science is a top-paying college degree and computer programming jobs are growing at two times the national average. Read More

(Computer World) – There’s a standard in the works for Ethernet gear to feed faster Wi-Fi access points, but with rival industry groups pushing two different specifications, it might take a while to finish. Wi-Fi is getting fast enough that Gigabit Ethernet can’t keep Read More

ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Most people can recognize Microsoft founder Bill Gates and know that hashtags belong in tweets, but are confused about whether having a privacy policy means that a company actually keeps consumer information confidential, according to a new Pew Read More

MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Let’s say President Barack Obama gets his way and high-speed Internet service providers are governed by the same U.S. regulations imposed on telephone companies 80 years ago. Depending on whom you listen to, the rules could Read More

By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – While Black and White people have similar rates of Internet use, Black people are slightly more plugged in to certain social media sites, where sharing life’s minutiae is the norm. “Social networks are a great way Read More

Claire Cain Miller, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—America’s slow and expensive Internet is more than just an annoyance for people trying to watch “Happy Gilmore” on Netflix. Largely a consequence of monopoly providers, the sluggish service could have long-term economic consequences for Read More

Georgi Kantchev, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—Governments around the world, particularly in emerging markets, are raising taxes on information technologies, threatening to impede economic growth and slow consumers’ adoption of smartphones and broadband Internet access, a report to be released on Read More

By Wellington E. Webb NNPA Guest Columnist Some people have asked me why I strongly oppose Internet gambling and I can sum it up in one sentence: Gambling on the Internet is for chumps. “Chumps” is an old-school reference to naïve and foolish people, Read More

(BRW) – A new era of product innovation is under way as more and more items are designed to connect to the “internet of things”. With the internet of things, no product is an island. Any device can be assigned an IP (internet protocol) address Read More

Jon Brodkin, ARS TECHNICA (ArsTechnica.com)—After complaints about a program that offers cheap Internet service to poor people, Comcast today announced it will provide “up to six months” of free Internet to new subscribers and an “amnesty” program for families with unpaid bills. Comcast’s Internet Essentials, mandated by the federal government Read More

[PC Mag] Get your party pants on, people — the World Wide Web is turning 25 on March 12. In honor of the Web’s impending quarter-life crisis, the Pew Research Center on Thursday released a survey showing just how far it has come over the years. Read More

October 8, 2013Kyle YeldellComments Off on 40% Of World Has Internet Access; Cheaper/More Plentiful Mobile Access And ‘Digital Naives’ Will Continue Spread

[University Herald] Cheaper and more plentiful mobile plans are helping to increase the reach of Internet access across the world. By 2013, around 40 percent of the planet will have online access, according to a United Nations report released Monday. Another report by the International Read More

[Politico] It was bound to happen: First, there was the Obama Girl, aka Amber Lee Ettinger, who turned heads in 2008 with her seductive YouTube videos in praise of then-Sen. Barack Obama. And, now, “Obama Boy.” Brooklyn-based Justin Brown, who describes himself on his Facebook page as a Read More

(The Guardian) House oversight committee chairman and firebrand Obama administration critic Darrell Issa is touting his first draft of a Digital Bill of Rights for internet denizens, and he’s asking for the public’s input. Issa, who spent the better part of the winter rallying opposition against the Stop Read More

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